Abstract: Liquid formulations for use in treating fabrics deposit a material providing a perceivable effect. The effect producing material is a component, in admixture with an organic matrix material and a cationic material, of a dispersed phase in an aqueous medium. The cationic material causes deposition of the dispersed phase onto a fabric allowing the effect producing material to act on the fabric surface. Optionally a fabric conditioning material is present in the aqueous phase.

Abstract: Textile treatment compositions comprise a water-insoluble cationic fabric softener and C.sub.12 -C.sub.40 hydrocarbon, optionally together with a water-soluble cationic surfactant. In two component systems, the ratio of cationic softener to hydrocarbon is from 5:1 to 1:3. Preferred hydrocarbon materials have from 14 to 18 carbon atoms and with such materials, highly concentrated fabric softeners can be prepared.

Abstract: Fabrics are treated in machine drying apparatus to reduce static electricity carried by the fabrics, soften the fabrics and improve other fabric properties. A reusable dispenser of solid or semi-solid fabric-conditioning agent is placed in the dryer drum and tumbled with the fabrics in the dryer thereby causing some of the fabric-conditioning agent to be transferred to the fabric. The fabric-conditioning agent comprises a fabric conditioner, a softening point modifier, and a viscosity modifier. When the dryer is heated, the heat of the dryer helps cause the fabric-conditioning agent to soften and assist in its distribution over the surface of fabric with which it is brought into tumbling contact.

Abstract: A composition for lubricating synthetic fibers, which comprises(i) a base oil containing compounds of the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R and R" each are hydrogen or acyl having 1 to 22 carbon atoms, R' is alkylene having 2 to 4 carbon atoms, and x and y each is an integer of at least 1, with the proviso that the sum of x and y does not exceed 50,And at least one ester selected from the group consisting of esters of aliphatic monohydric alcohols with monobasic fatty acids, dibasic fatty acids or mixture thereof and esters of aliphatic polyhydric alcohols with monobasic fatty acids, said ester having a kinematic viscosity not higher than 70 centistokes measured at 30.degree. C., and(ii) a polymer of 2,2,4-trimethyl-1,2-dihydroquinoline.

Abstract: A fabric softening composition comprising an anionic surfactant and a quaternary ammonium salt having two long chain alkyl or .beta.-hydroxy alkyl groups and one or two hydroxyethyl or hydroxypropyl groups.

Abstract: Fibers can be effectively treated with a composition containing .alpha.olefinsulfonic acid salts having not less than 20 carbon atoms.

Abstract: Antistatic agents useful in combination with fluorochemical-containing, soil-resistant, carpet-treating compositions for treating carpets having synthetic fiber pile. The antistatic agents comprise certain dialkyl sulfate quaternary salts of N,N-bis(hydroxyethyl) amines. The carpet treatments of this invention provide synthetic fiber pile carpets with an improved balance of performance and aesthetic properties.

Abstract: Detergent-compatible antistatic compositions contain a combination of cationic antistatic agents, organic adjuncts, and water-soluble, alkaline salts as discrete particles. Preferred compositions also contain certain types of smectite clay to enhance fabric-softening properties.

Abstract: A sodium chlorite bath for the bleaching of textile fibers, e.g. cotton, is activated by one or more bisulfite derivatives of an organic-reducing compound having one or more aldehyde or ketone functional groups and which are capable of forming bisulfitic combination addition compounds with an alkali bisulfite. Such activators have been found to be effective in bringing about the progressive decomposition of the sodium chlorite of the bath and hence controlled bleaching at relatively low temperatures of the sodium chlorite bath.

Abstract: A highly concentrated single phase liquid detergent composition containing fabric softener is formulated from a nonionic surfactant and an imidazolinium quaternary ammonium fabric softener.

Abstract: Solid fabric conditioner compositions comprising quaternary ammonium softener compound and high molecular alcohol, said compositions imparting antistatic properties and improving water wicking of fabrics.

Abstract: A laundry finishing treatment agent in package form for use in a mechanical laundry drier comprising a paste of effective substances of the fabric softening type, textile antistatic type, disinfectant type and, optionally, odorants mixed with a liquid, in a package of film material having a pillow-like form with one side impermeable to said effective substance and the other side having a plurality of slits therein.

Abstract: A textile-treating composition comprises a fabric-substantive cationic surfactant and a water-insoluble salt of a carboxylic acid having from 16 to 24 carbon atoms. Particularly useful water-insoluble salts are the calcium, aluminium or magnesium salts of stearic acid. Fabrics treated with the composition, either directly or in dilute aqueous solution, have enhanced softness and antistatic properties.

Abstract: A laundry method is disclosed including the step of laundering oil soiled fabric in lipophilic surfactant composition and subsequently laundering such fabric with a hydrophilic surfactant based detergent system.

Abstract: A new method for producing a stable, aqueous preparation of compounds which are organosiloxanes having amino groups attached to the silicon atoms which are used for the shrink-proofing of wool which preparations contain silanes which may be aminodi- or trialkoxysilanes is disclosed. Composition and the method of treatment of wool are also disclosed. Wool treated with the preparations exhibit excellent decreased shrinkage as well as an absence of felting.

Abstract: A composition for short cut, synthetic polymeric staple fibers that are used in a wet lay application for the production of nonwovens is disclosed and claimed herein along with a fiber having the finish thereon and the process for dispersing the fiber in an aqueous medium. Synthetic polymeric filaments are cut into staple lengths, generally in a range of from about 1/4 to about 3 inches in length, and are dispersed in an aqueous medium in conjunction with a composition that includes as an essential ingredient, an ethoxylated primary emulsifier that contains at least five moles of ethylene oxide, and exhibits a surface tension of at least 30 dynes per centimeter in a 0.10 weight percent aqueous solution a 25.degree. C. plus or minus 2.degree. C. Optionally, a lubricant may be added to the finish composition to improve processability of the fiber during manufacture. The lubricant should be compatible with the primary emulsifier.

Abstract: Fabric softening is provided by cationic diesters of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are each an alkyl or hydroxyalkyl group containing from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or a benzyl group, R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 are each alkyl chains containing from 11 to 23 carbon atoms, and X.sup.- is a water soluble anion. Mixtures of these diesters with the corresponding monoesters are described together with preparative methods.

Abstract: Emulsifier-solvent scour compositions which are stable at elevated temperatures when incorporated into aqueous caustic media for treatment of textile materials. The scour compositions comprise an inert organic solvent media containing:A. 5 to 35% of at least one phosphate ester of an ethoxylated and/or propoxylated C.sub.8 -C.sub.24 aliphatic or aromatic alcohol;B. 1 to 10% of at least one C.sub.8 -C.sub.24 carboxylic acid of salt thereof; andC. 4 to 20% of eitherI. at least one member from the group of sulfonated fatty acids or salts thereof, ethoxylated and/or propoxylated C.sub.8 -C.sub.24 carboxylic acid or glyceride, sulfonated alkyl diphenyl oxide or salts thereof, or substituted imidazoline; orIi. at least one of an ethoxylated and/or propoxylated C.sub.8 -C.sub.24 aliphatic or aromatic alcohol, amine or mercaptan; a sulfonated alkyl benzene, condensation products or salts thereof; or a fatty diethanol amide obtained from reacting diethanolamine with a C.sub.8 -C.sub.24 fatty acid or ester.

Abstract: The present invention relates to boric acid/amine reaction products of (a) boric acid and (b) an amine of the formula ##STR1## in which R denotes optionally substituted alkyl, alkenyl, aryl or cycloalkyl or an optionally substituted heterocyclic radical and m and n are each a number from 1 to 6. These products are used as auxiliaries in the textile, leather, detergent and cosmetics industry.

Abstract: A fabric conditioning composition comprises a fabric softening amount of a fabric softener and a deodorizing amount of a deodorant perfume, the composition having an odor reduction value within the range of from 0.50 to 3.5 as measured by the modified Whitehouse and Carter test.